Agusti Villaronga's adaptation of a celebrated "dirty realist" novel takes viewers on an immersively smutty tour of Old Havana. A woman is fatally electrocuted, her distraught son jumps to his death, ...

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Reinaldo, after escaping from a correctional facility, trying to survive on the streets of Havana of the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disappointments, rum, humorous and ...

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Agustí Villaronga adapts the novel of the same name by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. Recently escaped from reformatory, young Reinaldo tries to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the ...

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Around midnight on Oct. 11, 1960, the revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara summoned Julio Lobo to his office at the Central Bank in Havana. It was 22 months after the communist takeover, and Lobo knew ...

Few people have heard of Julio Lobo, but his history is intertwined with that of his home country. Lobo was Cuba's richest businessman until the... 'The Sugar King Of Havana,' Cuba's Last Tycoon ...